Worshop brochure Summer2011.pub

YCAC Workshop Locations:
YCAC Gallery: 119 East Elm
Street, Penn Yan, NY
Sunny Point: 869 E. Lake Road,
Dundee
For directions and more information check out our website:
www.ycac.org
Registration Information /
Refund Policy
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Full class fee is required at registration. Absolutely NO partial class fees.
Students may make up missed class if
available.
Some classes require you to bring specific materials and/or equipment.
Please ask for a list when registering.
Class size is limited. Please register
early to avoid closed classes.
Enrollment is first come first served.
Classes with inadequate enrollment are
canceled 1week before the first class
meeting. All fees refunded when YCAC
cancels a class.
Refunds of class fees, less $10 admin
fee, are made for withdrawals prior to 2
business days prior to first class or 2
weeks prior for full week workshop.
Contact the Arts Center at 315-5368226 if you have any questions.
Yates County Arts Center
119 E. Elm Street
Penn Yan, NY 14527
www.ycac.org
The 2011 Workshops at YCAC are supported in part
with public funds from the New York State Council on
the Arts State and Local Partnerships program.
For All Ages
Stamping Fun
June 20, Aug 15, Sept 19
5 pm– 7 pm
Instructor: Kathy Wheat
YCAC Gallery
Learn creative techniques using a variety of
paper and stamping media to create beautiful
cards and paper items. Beginner friendly.
(Please bring $5 for materials to each class)
$10/class adults, $5/class teens
Outdoor Drawing
August 4,11,18, 25
1 pm—4 pm
Instructor: Robin Secrest
YCAC Gallery
Discover outdoor drawing using a variety of
materials and techniques. (Bring your own
drawing pad, pencils, pens, chalk or whatever) $72 members, $96 non-members $35
teens
Plein Air Painting
August 8, 9,10,11
9 am– 2pm
Instructor: Dick Kane
Sunny Point
Using all five senses in the “the great classroom of the out-of-doors” students of painting
at all levels will focus on visualizing and painting subjects that inspire and challenge.
(Please bring a lunch.)
$120 members, $160 non-members, $60
teens
Plant Imprinting on Fabric
August 20
1 pm– 4pm
Instructor: Sandi Cirillo
Yates Gallery
Learn to imprint a design on fabric using a
variety of natural plant materials. (Please
bring a hammer and your favorite flowers or
leaves from your garden and $6 for materials).
$18 members, $24 non-members $10 teens
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Creative Collage
June 7,14, 21, 28
3:30-5:30 pm
Instructor: Robin Secrest
YCAC Gallery
Children will learn to create images with a
variety of papers—torn, cut, transparent, patterned and solid.
$20
Painting for Youth
July 5, 6, 7, 8
9 am–11 am
Instructor: Robin Secrest
Sunny Point
Using a variety of paint media students will
experiment with different painting techniques
and subject matters.
$20
Drawing with Gillespie
July 12,19, 26
1 pm—2:30 pm
Instructor: Bob Gillespie
YCAC Gallery
Where can a pencil take you? Into many world
of the imagination! Students will learn drawing
techniques using a variety of media and
materials.
$15
Adventures in Art
August 4,11,18, 25
10 am—noon
Instructor: Robin Secrest
YCAC Gallery
Each week students will venture into a different media and project, exploring the wonderful
world of art while working with paints, drawings, pencils, collage etc.
$20
Puppetry Workshop
August 15,16,17
10 am—noon
Instructor: Melanie Zimmer
Sunny Point
August 15: Create a sock puppet
August 16:Create paper puppets
August 17:Aaargh! It’s Be a Pirate Day!
(Please bring $2/class for materials) $5/class
For Adults
Adult Color Class
Five New Strategies for Paintings
Acrylic Painting
June 7,14, 21, 28
6-8 pm
Instructor: Robin Secrest
YCAC Gallery
Develop your sense of color by exploring sophisticated color palettes and learning effective color mixing to enhance value and contrast.
$48 members, $64 non-members
July 11,12,13,14,15
9 am-4 pm
Instructor: Susan Webb Tregay Sunny Point
Learn Tregay’s secret techniques for correcting and adjusting your painting, dealing with
boring spaces, and color, design and content
strategies that will bring a problematic painting to full-bodied completion. (Please bring a
lunch to class)
$250 members, $300 non-members
August 24
9am-3pm
Instructor: Char DiGennaro
YCAC Gallery
Learn techniques, experiment with materials
and explore the process of making colorful and
exciting acrylic paintings. (Please bring a lunch.)
$30 members, $40 no-members
Contemporary Acrylic Landscape
Painting
Aug 29 7-9 pm
and
Aug 30 9-3 pm
Instructor: Bonnie Barney
YCAC Gallery
Don’t think you can draw, much less paint?
This is the class for you! Start with discussion
on choosing a subject, demonstration of design
and composition techniques and then venture
out to capture your vision on paper.
$42 members, $56 non-members
Wood Sculpture
June 11,12,13,14
10 am-3pm
Instructor: Mark Allan Freedman Sunny Point
Create art forms from recycled or reclaimed
wood. (Please bring a lunch.)
$96 members, $128 non-members
New Techniques in Watercolor
June 15, 22, 29
9 am—noon
Instructor: Char DeGennaro YCAC Gallery
Explore a variety of new watercolor techniques with all levels of painters. Express
your individual creativity and have fun with
the watercolor medium.
$54 members, $72 non-members
Wet-into-Watercolor
June 25
9 am –3 pm
Instructor: Ed Steinhilper
YCAC Gallery
Explore the wet into watercolor method for
clean, transparent and lively paintings using
large brushes and a limited palette. (Please
bring lunch.)
$45 members, $55 non-members
Solarplate Printmaking
June 28, 29, 30
9 am-4pm
Instructor: Roger Hyndman
Sunny Point
Bring new dimensions to your sketches photos and other materials by creating solar
prints using the sun and ordinary tap water.
(Please bring approximately $45 for materials
to the first class and a lunch).
$108 members, $144 non-members
July 20, 21
10 am—3 pm
Instructor: Connie Ehindero
Sunny Point
Find news ways of seeing and consider the
importance of scale while painting an acrylic
landscape in the contemporary style.
(Please bring a lunch to class)
$48 members, $64 non-members
Pressed Flower Art
July 28
6:30-8:30 pm
Instructor: Betty Green
YCAC Gallery
If you’ve ever tucked flowers from your garden in a book to preserve their beauty, this
class is for you! In addition to learning
pressing techniques, create original pressed
flower greeting cards and bookmarks.
$12 members $16 non members
Portrait Drawing
July 29
9 am—1 pm
Instructor: Mary Arthur*
Sunny Point
Learn the fundamentals of looking at and
constructing a portrait, including determining
proportions and mapping out facial features.
Understanding light and shadow and how to
develop the portrait further will also be addressed.
$24 members, $32 non-members
*Mary Arthur of Baltimore, MD is YCAC’s
2011 Artist in Residence at Sunny Point.
Painting Your First Watercolor
Landscape
And Coming This Fall...
Watermedia Fun
September 7, 14
Instructor: Char DeGennaro
9 –3 pm
YCAC Gallery
Oil Painting
Wednesdays, Sept 21—Nov 9
6-8 pm
Instructor: Robin Secrest
YCAC Gallery
Creative Feltmaking
September 24
Instructor: Sandi Cirillo
1-4 pm
YCAC Gallery
Color Fun for Kids
Sept 21,28, Oct 5,12 12:30-2:30 or 3:30-5:30
Instructor: Robin Secrest
YCAC Gallery
Creative Art for 5-7 Year Olds
Sept 22,29, Oct 6,13,20,27
Instructor: Bev Oben
10 –11 am
YCAC Gallery
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9 –3 pm
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Gallery Opening Receptions:
Celebrate the vision and talent of local and
guest artists with wine, food and fellowship.
Wheels
YCAC Gallery
June 3
5-7 pm
Local Life
YCAC Gallery
July 22
5-7 PM
PYAG Annual Show
YCAC Gallery
September 9
5-7 pm
Summer Special Events:
Sundays At Sunny Point 11– 4 pm
Part art exhibition, part musical showcase,
part picnic, all relaxation and celebration on
the shores of beautiful Keuka Lake. Stop by
Sundays at Sunny Point and explore the art
of enjoying summer with us!
July 10: The 3 P’s (Painting,
Photography, Prints)
August 14: Calling All Kids (with
puppeteer Melanie Zimmer)
September 11: Hands On (Pottery,
Jewelry, Fabric Arts, Sculpture etc.)
Artists Studio Tour
Keuka Lake
Aug 6 & 7
10 am-4 pm
Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival
June 11, June 18, July 3, July 23
7:30 pm
Hunt Country Vineyards, Branchport
July 10, July 16, July 31
7:30 pm
Norton Chapel, Keuka College
July 13 Penn Yan Courthouse Lawn
6:30 pm
July 15 First Baptist Church Penn Yan 7:30 pm